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Same Table, a Truer Name

The name is changing, the work is not. The Scholar's Table is becoming The Berean Table, and everything you came for moves with it.
Scripture

The Grave Was a Mikvah

Ask what happened in the three days between the cross and the empty tomb and you will get one of two answers: a holy pause, or a raid on hell. The Hebrew was built to say something else. The grave was a mikvah, the immersion of the new covenant itself, and what came up out of that water was a crowned King and a heart of flesh. Down a servant, up the King, and the water He rose through is the same water you were buried into.
Scripture

Communion: What It Really Is, and Why I Refrain

He put the new covenant in His own blood into the hands of His friends, and we turned it into a sacrament. Read Hebraically, the cup is a covenant cut once and sealed forever, not a rite to be re-administered on a schedule by a professional. A sealed covenant cannot be re-sealed, and the covenant that retires the mediator was quietly rebuilt into a priesthood. Why I refrain, and what is still left at the table.
Scripture

Why the Holy Spirit within is so important today

Talking about the trouble both jews who know Messiah, and institutional Christians have with e Holy Spirt. Why it matters.
Scripture

Saul Already Knew

The West pictures a proud man thrown from a horse and converted to a new religion. There is no horse in the text, and there was no conversion. Saul of Tarsus was a Torah-trained Jew who, on the Damascus road, finally recognized the One his own Scriptures had been pointing to all along, and followed them all the way home.
Wisdom

Have you considered my people, Adam & Eve?

Why was sin used as part of the plan & Satan used as the necessary bad guy?
Wisdom

Gnats, Frogs, Camels—Oh My!

Jesus warned against straining out gnats while swallowing camels. In an age consumed by denominational controversies and endless theological debates, have we overlooked a much larger problem? This essay announces the dangers of allowing anti-Judaism and supersessionism into the church.
Wisdom

The Community You Cannot Build

Church community is sold as the cure for loneliness, but the lobby, the stage, the lighting, and the program are a production, and a production holds you only as long as it runs. The Hebrew edah gathers people around a shared purpose, not a building. You cannot manufacture organic community. You can only become someone around whom it forms. There is one ekklesia, and no program built it.

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